Teacher talk - English

• Education Resources - Compiled by Dr. Sue LeBeau, this site includes links to lesson plans, assessment and rubrics, graphics organizers, character education and anti-bullying, classroom management and discipline and more.
• National Council of English Teachers - Check out teaching ideas, class activities, composition, critical thinking, gender language & diversity, literature, reading, research, technology, whole language, writing, and more!
• Online poetry classroom - OPC provides both professional development for high school Language Arts teachers and a virtual teaching community enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online, including innovative, classroom-tested curricula.
• Poetry class - This is the solution for teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in the classroom.
• Purdue Online Writing Lab - This site has vast resources for writers and teachers of writing. The sections titled "Writing Across the Curriculum" and "Writing in the Disciplines" will assist you in everything from creating short, single writing assignments to newsletters.
• Score's CyberGuides - CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task with a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards.
• Vocabulary University - Free interactive cartoon word puzzles for students in grades 4-12, foreign students, and adults. There are also puzzles designed specifically for improving vocabulary for the SAT and ACT and puzzles with vocabulary words from books such as Catcher in the Rye and The Joy Luck Club.